Intimacy outside of fixed patterns and conventions is fantastic, creative and unpredictable - that's what makes it so appealing, but also quite complex and challenging. In the (AN)OTHER INTIMACY workshops, we want to embark on this adventure! What is there to experience? How do I come up with ideas? How do I find out what my deep needs and longings are? And how do I put them into practice?
The SENSORY EXPLORATIONS course is dedicated entirely to the sensuality of our bodies. We are inspired by the concept of Beginner's Mind - also known as Shoshin in Zen Buddhism - which refers to an inner attitude of openness, curiosity and the beneficial absence of preconceptions or judgments. In this attitude of not knowing and not knowing, we rediscover our sensorium together, as if we were experiencing the fabulous sensory abilities of our bodies for the first time.
Seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, tasting. Five modes guide us through the course, suggesting a movement of approach in this order - because we can see each other from a great distance, but taste only in unheard-of immediacy. While we want to decode the creative, intimate and emotional potential of each of the senses, how they touch and move us ultimately depends on who we are.
And so our joint explorations, in which we want to separate, deprive, combine and merge sensorially, are not just about new impulses and materials for our playful creativity in encounters. It is also about learning more about ourselves and our relationship to our bodies, about other people and about encounters and relationships with each other.
More about (AN)OTHER INTIMACY
The (AN)OTHER INTIMACY workshops aim to give participants an idea of what a playful & alternative 'sex-positive' space could be, how we can shape it together and move through it. The focus is clearly beyond a normative understanding of intimacy and sexuality that would equate sex with nudity, touching around the genitals and any kind of physical penetration. We prefer to focus on the playful, imaginative, performative and experimental aspects of touching a wide variety of what human bodies & minds are capable of.
Working with tools such as Bodysomatics, the Beginners Mind, role play and BDSM-inspired practices, we will create multiple opportunities to develop spontaneity and playfulness, to dare to find out what is interesting and desired and what is definitely undesirable, to set boundaries, communicate and respect them, but also to invite consensual play and co-create scenes. Playful experimentation becomes both a strategy for discovering new ways of intimate interaction and its main tool. After two days of (re?)getting to know our playful selves and learning how to deal with them, we will form a trusting community of experimenters. On Sunday, this community will embark on a sometimes more, sometimes less structured, yet carefully designed PlayArragement in order to test and celebrate themselves and their new discoveries in a freer setting.
SCHEDULE
Fri, 08.12.2023 - 17-23:** h
Sat, 09.12.2023 - 11-22:** h
Sun, 10.12.2023 - 11-20:** h
The end of the course may be slightly delayed for this event.
LANGUAGES
German, English
HOSTED BY
Beata & Rebecca
COSTS
Registration fee per person
CHF 77,-
This event will take place under special conditions. We also want to make it as inclusive as possible.
Therefore, there is no fixed price for the workshop in addition to the registration fee. However, we would like to point out that a realistic price for such a workshop, if you want to live from it (as we try to do with luhmen d'arc), is rather around CHF 550,- per person.
Additional contributions - taking into account your own income situation - are therefore very welcome. Payment options - cash or by twint - are available on site.
Please also read all further info below, too.
FURTHER INFORMATION
NOTES ON THE EVENT
The aims of our events are to learn together as a group and support shared processes as well as personal development. Couples and all other types of partnerships or constellations are welcome, but you should be aware and open to the fact that the courses are not designed as partnership experiences and that we address each person as an individual. For example, in order to include all participants equally, we usually work with random partner combinations in the exercises. This means that there will be both the same and different gender combinations. Participants should generally be open to working with any person and any body. Exceptions can be discussed on a case-by-case basis.
Gender identity, sexual orientation, age or membership of marginalized groups such as BBIPoC, migrants, refugees, LGBTQIA*, people with disabilities, etc. are not criteria when registering and selecting participants.
We expect you to be careful, communicative, consent-oriented and mindful, and we encourage you to respect your own boundaries and self-responsibility.
Hate speech will not be tolerated. Please bring "candy speech".
We reserve the right to ask participants to leave the workshop should their behavior be hurtful or too problematic, and we reserve the right to do so without explanation - although we will likely try to explain. Workshop fees would then be refunded in full. Further claims are then excluded.
We do our best to accommodate different needs, but our resources are limited. If in doubt, please contact us.
You can read more about this topic here.
CANCELLATION POLICY
Cancellations are free of charge up to eight weeks before the start of the course, up to four weeks before the start of the course a cancellation fee of 20% of the course fee is due, up to two weeks before the start of the course a cancellation fee of 50% is due. Later cancellations and refunds of participant fees are not possible. However, participants can find substitute participants who will take the booked places. In case of cancellation by the organizer, the course fee will be refunded in full. Further claims are excluded.